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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
1119
2
Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
1060
3
Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
966
4
Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
871
5
FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
867
6
Showoff
794
7
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
711
8
Workers Leaving the Googleplex
683
9
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo
565
10
Amazon Web Services are down
550
Top Ask HN
1
How to stave off decline of HN?
462
2
Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
280
3
Why can't I make as much as I make?
262
4
Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
183
5
How are lean startups easily accepting CC payments?
164
6
how to become a morning person?
151
7
How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?
145
8
ASK HN: What methods do you use to gain early customers for your startup?
112
9
Can you recommend some directories to list your app?
95
10
What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?
94
Top Show HN
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my weekend project, Gumroad
390
2
Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
273
3
My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
211
4
made a html5 game, polished it many many times
210
5
CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms
179
6
Hacker Typer [joke]
158
7
An isometric marble run build in CoffeeScript
134
8
Codr.cc - Etherpad meets Pastebin Meets Notepad.cc: live code sharing
133
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jsgif: A GIF player in JavaScript
126
10
Amazon EC2 instance comparison table
120
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug
413
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Peter Thiel: Were in a Higher Education Bubble
338
3
Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad
305
4
Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
283
5
Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works
257
6
Screw you. Pay me.
247
7
Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it personal... very personal
206
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Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day
199
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Were In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble
183
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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
170
News [?]
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
342
2
Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D
320
3
My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)
303
4
Working Best at Coffee Shops
247
5
Is Sugar Toxic?
185
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Three signs you have a management problem. And that problem might be you
184
7
Voyager 1 is on the edge, and so is he
169
8
A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman chills entrepreneurs
167
9
Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
164
10
Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees
155
Scientific publications [?]
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Information Physics: The New Frontier
57
2
Study: IQ test results are higher among those who really want high scores
38
3
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
25
4
Are We Giving Google More Than We Get?
24
5
Gulf Spill One Year Later: Lessons for Robotics
18
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Robots Enter Fukushima Reactors, Detect High Radiation
15
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Boosting brain matter by learning like a child.
5
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Myths About Gagarin's Spaceflight
4
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Why We Should Build Humanlike Robots
3
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Da Vinci Surgical Robot Folds, Throws Tiny Paper Airplane
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala
107
2
Ebook Fraud
70
3
Linux Power Usage Regression in 2.6.38+
65
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Pinpointing your location to Within 690 Meters
53
5
Trinity: Microsoft Researchs Hypergraph Database
31
6
Forget Epsilon, Fear the Angry Bird
15
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Detecting Cheaters
10
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Schneier's Law
10
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Schneier on Security: Changing Incentives Creates Security Risks
8
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Will the Rise of Javascript Mean the End of LAMP?
8
Tech blogs [?]
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Googles secret perk? A private hackerspace
193
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Why we need an Open Wireless movement
146
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Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement
127
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Sony v. Hotz Ends with a Whimper, I Mean a Gag Order
80
5
Unqualified Names in the SSL Observatory
66
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New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government's Surveillance Spyware
65
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EFF's fair use win over Righthaven: it's hard out here for a troll
63
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The BlackBerry PlayBook Review
35
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EFF explains why Righthaven's copyright assignment is a sham
30
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Apple Purchases iCloud.com for $4.5 Million
28
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
380
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Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)
213
3
Announcing Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront
26
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AWS Case Study: BackType
24
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
20
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(Joy of) Clojure Bookshelf
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Ad supported kindle released
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2nd Ed of TCP/IP Illustrated vol. 1
13
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IPhone 4 in white
12
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Levy's new book "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"
9
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As A Personal Favor To Movie Official
193
2
Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
175
3
Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?
149
4
An Engineer's Explanation of the Fukushima Incident
82
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New Zealand Government Rushes Through Controversial Anti-Piracy Law
76
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Metrics Metrics Everywhere - Coda Hale at CodeConf
72
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Unknown band's album illegally downloaded 100,000 times. Or is it?
42
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Monopoly Lawyers Shouldn’t Write Monopoly Laws
40
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Entrepreneurs Plan To Legalize and Monetize Illegal Music
19
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Lisp lore: a guide to programming the Lisp machine
10
Science News [?]
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New order of animals discovered?
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Reform the PhD system or close it down
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When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
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Low voltage brain stimulation can double mental performance
28
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Fukushima: Is it really the new Chernobyl?
20
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Yellow dye 1 could be the key to immortality
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Up close and personal with an active volcano
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What is a PhD Really Worth?
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Omega-3s in the blood may boost risk of aggressive prostate cancer
13
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Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC
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Social [?]
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Joel Spolsky is doing an IAmA on reddit
208
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John Resig's CSS optimization for F7U12 SubReddit (more than 6x improvement)
146
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Starting Up Silicon Valley Style
127
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The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit
115
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Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam?
84
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Thoughts on Software Quality
66
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Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story
66
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Jedberg on Reddit's most recent outage
59
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Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours
47
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Dilbert creator outed for using sock puppets on Metafilter and Reddit
39
Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub launches Issues 2.0
336
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Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript
316
3
The Merge Button
251
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Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh
228
5
SICP in ePub format on Github
156
6
Raphters, a web framework for C
144
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A PHP clone of Panic's status board
128
8
Source for Predator Object Tracking (OpenCV)
115
9
Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.
104
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Forking with the Edit Button
99
Wikipedia [?]
1
Fallacies of Distributed Computing
137
2
Evercookie
72
3
Node.js wikipedia entry marked for deletion for not being notable
66
4
Earth as a nuclear furnace (geothermal heat is mostly from radioactive decay)
44
5
42% of US college graduates never read another book after college
30
6
50th anniversary of the first human space flight
23
7
Circle-Ellipse Problem
21
8
Petrodollar Warfare -- AKA the "Oil Currency Wars"
13
9
Three men make a tiger
9
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Cymothoa exigua
8
Blogs [?]
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
15
2
Cities and Ambition [2008]
2
Stackoverflow [?]
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The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List
78
2
What does your .gitconfig contain?
76
3
What are those little Xcode tips & tricks you wish you knew about 2 years ago?
56
4
Writing Maintainable Event-Driven Code
22
5
Why you should not parse (X)HTML with a Regexp
13
6
Good resources for learning HTML5 Websockets
12
7
Source code listing something like the pragmatic programmer books with LaTeX
10
8
You can be breaking the law using pt for font-size
5
9
What is entropy and information gain
4
10
How Ruby object_id assignment works
3
Substack [?]